Thank you...this is the music we were listening to on WABC in New York at the time...great to be able to revisit this music--especially in such abundance & quality--which was so vital then it seemed like it would never recede into the dusty past. [4] Later that year, with slight modifications to the script, another version was aired hosted by Humble Harve Miller. "Drake-Chenault History Of Country Music - FOUND!!!" KHJ repeated this in 12-hour blocks. The program closed with The Beatles' version of "Rock and Roll Music".
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It aired for 48 hours and was later syndicated.
Addeddate 2020-06-29 23:42:59 Identifier the-real-don-steele-khj-los-angeles-ca-may-30-1969-unscoped Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.4. plus-circle Add Review. Cheers! The History of Rock & Roll is an American radio documentary on rock and roll music, originally syndicated in 1969. Thank you. Know that it is appreciated. Be the first one to write a review. The program employed a systematic approach covering each year with a focused half-hour as well as separate segments devoted to key artists or trends. It featured only the years through 1971 and was targeted to oldies stations.
The final Drake-Chenault version was released in the spring of 1981, named the Silver Anniversary Edition[12] of the History of Rock & Roll, so-called as it was released 25 years after Elvis Presley's first #1 hit. [citation needed][10] Drake replaced previous host Humble Harve Miller. One of the lengthiest documentaries of any medium (48 hours in the 1969 version, 52 hours each for the 1978 and 1981 versions),[1] The History of Rock & Roll is a definitive history of the Rock and Roll genre, stretching from the early 1950s to its day. Be the first one to, The Real Don Steele, KHJ Los Angeles, CA May 30, 1969 (Unscoped), the-real-don-steele-khj-los-angeles-ca-may-30-1969-unscoped, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). Take a trip back to a time when KHJ ruled! Accessed 07-07-2017.
The final hour is a time sweep of all of the country No. The original KHJ show also carried promos awarding copies of the show as prizes to a handful of listeners, on reel-to-reel tape AND a tape recorder to play it on. Seit 1970 ist Cyclamat in den USA verboten.
The likelihood of a revised documentary is diminished further by the fact that rock has lost much of its dominance over the music industry since 1981 as hip hop and electronic music have grown in popularity. Charis Music Group.
[4] The History of Rock and Roll billed itself as "modern music's first rockumentary" when it first aired on February 21, 1969. Stations were required to return the tapes immediately after airing, though (surprisingly) several stations offered copies of the show as prizes. In addition, Rolling Stone magazine not only released a book with this phrase (The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll), but also had an early-1980s weekly radio series with some similarities to the classic 1978 special (Rolling Stone's Continuous History of Rock & Roll). Finding that the 1969 script contained inaccuracies and omissions, programmer/DJ/music historian Gary Theroux researched, rewrote, and rebuilt the program entirely from scratch. Even so, it is easy to see the entire BOSS campaign was built on calculated slickness.
I'll drop out in the early '70s, just as I did in real life ... but I'm so grateful for these additions to my archives. Thanks for sharing it!
The History of Rock & Roll first aired on the weekend of February 21–23, 1969 on 93 KHJ Los Angeles, hosted by Robert W. Morgan. comment . Stream KHJ The History of Rock & Roll 1969, a playlist by user921704634 from desktop or your mobile device. [6][7] But since The History of Rock and Roll completed its first broadcast that weekend, it was the first of these rockumentaries to be broadcast in full.
Since the documentary was in development at the time Elvis Presley died in August 1977, Drake-Chenault was able to quickly produce and distribute material from the documentary as "Elvis: A Three Hour Special".
A labor of love, as they say! SoundCloud. As a result, various items came on the market that bear the name which had no connection to the radio program. The "rockumentary," as producers Bill Drake and Gene Chenault called it,[2] features hundreds of interviews and comments from numerous rock artists and people involved with rock and roll. Nearly every fast-paced episode interweaves three key hits by a spotlit artist with comments by that star and whatever minimal narration is needed to complete each story. The Chairman, Wow !
[15], The Drake-Chenault and Gary Theroux Productions' "History of Rock 'n' Roll" programs are not to be confused with other productions with similar names, such as the ABC Rock Radio Network's "The Official History of Rock & Roll."
This site features every KHJ Boss 30 survey from 1965-73 plus additional Boss Radio material from the same period. The program was then syndicated nationally in the fall of 1969 by parent company RKO General. 1969. Thanks to you and your helpers BF. The documentary would likely run 150 to 200 hours. 1967 begann Mario Machado seine Karriere als Nachrichtenreporter bei KHJ-TV (heute KCAL-TV). Reviews There are no reviews yet. "Bill Drake dies at 71; 'Boss Radio' inventor spread less-talk format across country - Los Angeles Times", "The Reel Top 40 Radio Repository - The History of Rock and Roll Demo", "Classic DJ and Radio Scrapbook: KRLA POP CHRONICLES Program, 1969 (1 of 2)", "Collection Overview — University of North Texas Libraries", "Radio pioneer Bill Drake dies at 71 | drake, radio, khj, top, boss - Entertainment - OCRegister.com", "The Curt Lundgren Collection - History of Rock and 1981 Excerpts", http://www.streamlicensing.com/stations/rewound/home.html, "New York Festivals - 2014 World's Best Radio Programs™ Winners", "Charis Music Group - the Restoration Authority for American Top 40", "The History of Rock 'N' Roll with Gary Theroux", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_History_of_Rock_and_Roll&oldid=951389203, Articles with dead external links from June 2018, Articles with permanently dead external links, Short description is different from Wikidata, Pages using infobox radio show with unknown parameters, Articles with unsourced statements from December 2008, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2008, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, stereo (except for individual performances originally recorded in mono), This page was last edited on 16 April 2020, at 22:34. 4.
Writer Pete Johnson said that "I included nearly every record I ever rem[em]ber hearing". Saved by Kenny Pelletier. Those #1 hit montages were reprised for the climactic final hour of the show—edited together back to back to create a fast-moving 45-minute medley of every chart-topping hit from 1955 to the fall of 1977.
The program concluded with The History of Rock and Roll Time Sweep, a 45-minute collage of number one hits from January 1956 (Dean Martin's Memories Are Made Of This) to November 1977 (Debby Boone's "You Light Up My Life").
KHJ Boss 30 - September 24, 1969. Produced and syndicated to radio stations in 1982, this 52-hour radio documentary was hosted by Ralph Emery and had features similar to the Rock and Roll version. Only their two-hour profile of Elvis Presley remained relatively intact.
See what's new with book lending at the Internet Archive, Uploaded by Thank you one more time, BF, for all the effort and love you put into these collections/upgrades. As a collector of annual charts from various sources, I'm always looking for B-sides and mono versions ... so this is heaven. Drake knew that the rising popularity of stereo FM rock stations made it necessary to redo the show in stereo.